Subject: Greetings / Call for Papers

From: "Federal Webmasters" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:34:46 -0600

Colleagues,

I am representing the Federal World Wide Web Consortium.  This is the first
message to Federal Webmasters since we have re-established this list.  You all
attended one or both of our Federal Webmasters Workshops, and so we assume
you'll be interested in the occasional announcement related to the topics of
the Web, and Federal information services.  If you'd rather not be on the list,
please reply to me directly ([email-masked]) and we'll remove you from the
list, or if you have someone who should be on the list, please send us their
name and email address.

If you have such a message you wish to be sent to federal webmasters, please
send it to me, and if it is well-targeted for the list, we'll pass it on.

Below is the announcement of a call for white papers in the area of Federal
information services.  Please read it through and pass on to colleagues. We'd
very much like your ideas and comments.

Thanks.

Larry Brandt
Program Manager for Advanced INformation Systems
National Science Foundation
email: [email-masked]

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A  workshop on R&D Opportunities in Federal Information Services is being
sponsored by the Applications Council of the National Science and
Technology Council's Committee on Computing, Information, and
Communications and is being coordinated by the Information Sciences
Institute of the University of Southern California. Funding for conducting
the workshop has been provided by the National Science Foundation's
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, the
President's Government Information Technology Services Board, and National
Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources. The workshop
is scheduled for May 13-15, 1997 to be held at a location to be determined
in or near Washington, D.C.

The workshop is intended to address a concern regarding high level
disconnect of the information services (IS) field from the information
technologies R&D world, a disconnect which is cultural, educational and
technological. This gap between the industrial IS segment and the R&D
performers in the information technologies (IT) sector, is of some concern
to vendors, users and R&D performers and government supporters of R&D in
information technologies.

As a result of the first meeting (December 3-4) of the organizing committee
for the workshop, a Call for White Papers has been developed.  The Call and
additional information on the workshop process can be found at URL
http://www.isi.edu/nsf/ .  This URL will be kept live and dynamic as more
information is available, and will serve as the entry point for on-line
submission of White Papers beginning in mid-January 1997.  Papers are due
no later than March 3, 1997.

All sectors and interested parties are encouraged to submit Papers for
review.  Please forward this message to any interested individuals or
organizations.

Thank you.